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Palaeobiodiversity emphasizes the importance of conserving landscape heterogeneity and connectivity

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    Michael J. Samways

  2. Faculté des Sciences et Techniques de St Jérôme, Institut Méditerranéen d’Ecologie et de Paléoécologie, UMR CNRS 6116, 13397 Marseille cedex 20, France

    Philippe Ponel & Valerie Andrieu-Ponel

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Samways, M.J., Ponel, P. & Andrieu-Ponel, V. Palaeobiodiversity emphasizes the importance of conserving landscape heterogeneity and connectivity. J Insect Conserv 10, 215–218 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-005-6421-6

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